HMT v WA

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal against sentence
  3. › Sentencing discretion
  4. › Identity crimes
  5. › Reduced sentence for cooperation with law enforcement authorities
  6. › Whether discount under s 37A of Sentencing Act 1995 (WA) should be applied to individual sentences or total effective sentence
  7. › Whether logical impossibility in individual sentences and total effective sentence as recorded
  8. › Sentencing Act 1995 (WA), s 37A
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal against sentence
  3. › Grounds of appeal
  4. › Alleged factual errors
  5. › Alleged consideration of extraneous or irrelevant matters
  6. › Whether individual sentence manifestly excessive
  7. › Turns on own facts
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Identity crimes
  4. › Persistent and prolonged offending
  5. › Offending while subject to conditional suspended imprisonment orders
  6. › Totality principle
  7. › Criminal Code (WA), s 490(1), s 409(c), s 492(2), s 424(d)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Court records
  3. › Certificate of final outcome of charge
  4. › Formal record of court
  5. › Whether certificate accurately reflects sentences imposed
  6. › Criminal Procedure Rules 2005 (WA), r 49

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